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American society has branded marriage as an institution of love, and yet we cling to old-fashioned narratives about divorce. Astro Teller and Danielle Teller argue that this is harmful to individuals, couples — and society at large.

Let’s shake ourselves out of our four-wheeled stupor, look at the vehicles and devices being developed, and reimagine how we’ll move around our cities, says technology curator Alex Moura.

For women in the developing world, the focus is on surviving everyday violence, assault and rape. Gary Haugen argues that until we acknowledge the pervasive nature of such violence, we’ll never change anything. He shares five shocking stats he hopes might help us pay closer attention.

Science funding is broken. To fix it, we need to empower a new class of makers, citizen scientists and explorers

Four-and-a-half years after her popular and powerful TED Talk, the social psychologist updates the research on posture and hormones, responds to her critics and discusses her current work.

Marc Goodman
 of the Future Crimes Institute and Singularity University shares his thinking on the promise — and threat — of drones.

Invisible to the eye and undetectable by most sensors, the small frequency of light called terahertz has eluded scientists for more than a century. That is finally changing — and revealing some amazing visuals in the process.

A lot of people are advocating for pooling medical data and crowdsourcing medical history. But there’s a much more interesting reason to share your medical data, and it has to do with finding “resilient” outliers. It’s science we should all get behind.

In his TED Talk, Dan Gilbert remarks on the disconnect between our past and future selves, and how too often we delude ourselves that the person we are right now is the person we’ll be for the rest of time. It’s not the case … and we should run with it.

By creating tech that lets dolphins play computer games and request belly rubs, we can understand their intelligence and perhaps even get a preview of life on other planets, says marine mammal researcher Diana Reiss.